Monbon

Obviously given up on saving his remaining brain cells...Assuming they found one.

Um, after your pdst to me about 4 times...Glad we're back in the same corner.

Let's leave Little Nicky out of this. He's a first class footballer, son of another great. He has noting to do wid did discussion, see...

Dear Fellow Pell Despiser: You are coming across as a Magpie Troll.

Which God are you referring to? Glad we agree about Pell- we have 2 things in common now...

Yep, 'rules based order' what a tragic joke that term is.

Now I know you were really a lawyer!!!!!

I only have to refer to the Pell stuff to know exactly what you mean. In other words, if this is the third arm of government - as though the first two arms aren't ridiculous enough -God help us!!!!!

Yep: when the word 'smother' comes up, I associate a player standing next to or close to the kicker pushing both arms down towards the kicker's boots. In other words, if you're a few meters in front of the kicker and you turn your shoulder into the oncoming kicker after he has kicked the ball is simply assault in my book.

I totally agree with you: the perversion of Law and Justice is the bulkwark of our society.

Must have been: that's OBVIOUSLY why he ran into and assaulted Maynard.

And nothing is changed.

With all respect - and I mean this genuinely - your defence of 'Aussie Law' is not the full picture. I know of certain 'lawyers' who specialize in, shall we say, selling criminals get out of jail cards. And, by the way, I would have thought a player knocking an opponent unconscious with his shoulder after he has kicked a football over his head has SFA to do with 'Aussie lawyers who spend years being trained to look at events chronologically, reasonably and rationonately.' I note you are a lawyer who can't even spell rationally correctly.

Did you specialize in Jesuistry?

Interesting article though at the end, he sits on the fence and mentions all the sentimental [censored] about the possibility of Maynard missing playing in a GF.

Every time you post, my contempt for 'Lawyers' grows.

Exactly: I'm glad you brought this up. The only difference was May stood still, whereas Maynard thrust his shoulders directly at Brayshwaw's head.

You seem to forget that there are so-called Laws of the game which are designed to deter thugs from inflicting life-long damage. Every form of sport called 'football' by any name, e.g. rugby, soccer, inherently puts a player 'at risk'. However, it is, in the end, a sport not a battlefield or a colosseum, and there is the concept called 'Laws of the Game', laws made to protect partakers from life-threatening forms of assault, which, in the end, is what Maynard perpetrated on his so-called mate and drinking buddy. Your statement that 'you put yourself at risk playing a contact sport' is true only as far as what can be fairly described as accidents, but it should not put you at risk of sustaining 'Common Assault.'

How many times did he roll up on this topic to defend Maynard?????Then to start the 'lawyer talk' was a wee bit more than I could bear. His defence of thuggery and reference to the good old days was bad enough. Keep on Roosting...

Yes, I call to mind a certain aPellation...

Go figure, a retired 'lawyer'. Is anyone surprised by the semantics and sophistry and jesuistry you display? Not to mention your affirmation of football field violence, just like in your 'good ol days'....

Pardon - who HAS kicked it over his numbskull head...

I'd get a head first, Rollo...

Wtf does it matter if he was playing for 'us'. If you are one of 'us', count me out...

You should stop embarrassing yourself. So you were a shameless thug. Good on you. Live with it. Don't excuse equally shameless thugs who are still out there to injure and maim opposition players.